Still the Unfinished Swan...

Still the Unfinished Swan...
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014

My Open Letter to Rush Limbaugh Regarding the Death of Robin Williams...

Dear Rush-
     I googled you for the first and, God willing, only time ever today.  Why?  I was curious what would inspire such a tirade from Lewis Black.  Not sure what I'm talking about?  Well, upon logging into Facebook today, I saw that a good friend of mine had shared Mr. Black's update.  You should see it, as you were obviously the catalyst to it.

FUCK YOU Rush Limbaugh. Your statements were beyond cruel and stupid. They were intolerable. Enough is enough from you. You are an idiot. Don't you ever demean the death of another human being. He was my friend. You disgust me.
     I'll admit that I've never been a fan of yours.  Your holier than thou attitude grates on me the way nails on a chalkboard irritates most people.  I somehow doubt that you'll ever read this, and given that I agree with Aristotle's idea that "It is the sign of an intelligent mind to entertain a thought without necessarily agreeing with it", I know you'll not understand it if you do read it.  Wait, does that sound callous or perhaps short-sighted?  Am I not giving you enough credit?  Aww, well sugar, I suggest you get used to it. I give credit only where it is due.

     Please, allow me to explain a few things to you in reference to your comments regarding the "political" twist on the death of Robin Williams.  I've read the transcript on your website a number of times and cannot help noticing that you have no grasp of what depression is as a sickness, nor what is truly being glorified in the media surrounding the death of Mr. Williams.
   
     First off, you seem to think that it is only those in Washington that seem to look at news on a Global scale.  Odd, I hadn't realized that relocating to South Florida meant that I was to be lumped in with the "average TMZ watchers" that you reference in your transcript.  No, I don't live in the capitol, but being an educated, intelligent, and compassionate woman, I (like so many others) see not only the news that it thrown in my face by the major news media, but the stories that are shared throughout other channels.  This includes social media.  Fancy that!  I hadn't realized your dislike of social media and I would applaud you for your vehemence against it, but I couldn't help but notice in reading your transcript on your website, that you advertise your own Facebook page there as well.  I was even given the opportunity to share the article on my page.  Amazingly ironic that you yourself said, "You have so many people on social media who so desperately want fame.  You know it and I know it. " and here you are, on social media-- seeking fame.  Looks like you know and I know it--not to mention the rest of the world.

     You state in your transcript that you've never felt that suicide should be glorified.  Umm, I think  you've missed the point of the coverage on Mr. Williams.  No one is broadcasting "Look at Robin! So brave he killed himself!"  The bravery, the glorification is for the man who battled for so long.  It is for the man who put others needs ahead of his own by making sure that others were laughing, even though he could not.  Do you know anything about depression, sir?  Have you battled it?  Or do you, like many others, believe that because you plug the word into the Google box on the interwebs and read the first sentence of the results you see there, that you're an expert?  Let me give you a crash course in depression from someone who has battled it for longer than I'd care to admit.  Depression is that listless feeling that would keep you eternally in bed because you think that you've nothing to contribute to the world.  Depression is when you stop answering or making calls because you don't believe that anyone has anything to say to you because they don't really wish to speak to you.  Depression is seeing a car approaching while at a stop light and thinking that it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if it didn't stop and just hit you instead.  Depression is sleepless nights at war with yourself imagining how much easier your family and so-called loved ones would have it if you were gone.  It is far from the selfish act that you paint it to be.  Until you've lain awake at night with these thoughts, you know nothing of depression.  You cannot fathom the ups when you realize your own value again, nor the downs when all the world is a darker shade of gray, yet you go on because it is expected of you.  You're clueless to the exhaustion after a day of convincing everyone that things are great before you go home to be alone with the demons you face.

     I wouldn't wish that sort of pain and anguish on my worst enemy, sir, but I can't say that if I saw you in those depths, that I'd extend a hand to pull you out.

     Robin Williams was a good man by all accounts.  His life, his work, his battle should be glorified!  If for no other reason than to raise awareness of a disease that most people think is little more than mind over matter.  You're worried about the coverage inspiring copycats?  Exactly how daft are you?  Even the most addled mind knows that without the star power, good works and decades of accolades, a suicide would not inspire the infamy of that of Mr. Williams.  Do you really believe that some random kid who wants to be popular is sitting around thinking that if he kills himself, CNN is going to be at his school conducting interviews about him the next day?  If so, you might want  to rethink that.  It is true that anyone would love to receive the accolades that Robin Williams has inspired, but you'd have to be that kind of human being to receive them.  Don't worry, you're in no danger of that when you go, sir.

     You state in your broadcast the reasons why Mr. Williams committed suicide.  I'd not realized that he'd told anyone his reasons.  Wait, he didn't?  Imagine that.  For any so-called "news" organization to give reasons for his suicide is laughable.  Not to mention irresponsible journalism, but you should be an expert on that by now, right?  Your assumption that the "leftist ways" are to blame for this instead of the disorder he faced takes you from irresponsible to delusional.  Good luck grasping at those straws.

     In parting, I would make a recommendation to you.  At the end of your transcript, you asked, "What do you think the percentage is of media people who are actually low-information, incompetent people themselves? "  Are you making a list?  If so, I hope you remember to include your name first and go from there.

With patent dislike-
Amy Klacik

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